Much more learned men than his nephew would

have found it rather hard to refLite his facta and arguments. Another circumstance soon presented itaelf. This fossilized body was not the only one in this vast plain of bones — the cemetery of an extinct world. Other bodies were found, as 'vve trod the dusty plain, and ray uncle was able to choose the most marvelous of these specimens in order to con- vince the most incredulous. In truth, it was a surprising spectacle, the sue- cesBive remains of generations and generations of men and animais confounded together in one vast cemetery. But a great question now presented it- self to our notice, and one we were actually afraid to contemplate in all its bearings. Had these once animated beings been buried so far beneath the soil by some tremendous convulsion of nature, after they had been earth to earth and ashes to ashes, or had they lived here below, in this subterranean world, under this factitious sky, born, married, and given in marriage, and dying at last, just like ord- inai-y inhabitants of the earth? Up to the present moment, marine monsters, flah, and such like animals, had alone been seen alive! The question which rendered us rather uneasy, was a pertinent one, Ws'"^ ai^r of these men of the abyss wandering about the deserted shores of this wondrous sea of the center of the earth? This was a question which rendered me very uneasy and un- comfortable. How, should they really he in exis- tence, would they receive ua men from above?;

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